Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
cleaning, positive
Got a botvac and it's definitely working much better than I expected! This is probably gonna save me a lot of spoons...
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lewd, shitpost
shock collar that shocks you whenever someone in your polycule with a distance of 3 or less has an orgasm
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self-hosted spotify alternative that shows you a list of people who are currently having sex to that song, with a "beats to fuck to" playlist that plays the songs that people fucking listen to the most right now.
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has anybody noticed that computers aren't very good
personal, negative, death
In addition to the ongoing saga of my kidney disease (which could turn Very Bad at any moment), my remaining grandma died this week, and my cat probably doesn't have long to live anymore either, all of that on top of the usual ambient shittiness of *gestures at society around them*
It would be nice if the hits stopped coming for a bit
Brain bug I would like to resolve: when I'm experiencing conflicting emotions, I default to emitting none
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"Do you believe in life after work"
Spotted in Lucca, Italy
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No but for real:
MasterCard getting to determine what counts as "adult" content, including drawn images like figure studies?
Patreon handing your face data & ID information over to a 3rd party?
That 3rd party claiming a right to use that data to train their facial recognition "AI"?
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: Indigenous Terror
I'm constantly embarrassed and angry at my conduct in the last decade online
But I've also realized enough to understand just because I have learned and grown from my mistakes doesn't mean that the people I hurt have to see that. There is no reason to force them to look at me again. If I try to, I have learned nothing.
They're allowed to tell their friends about how I pissed them off a few years ago (just as I may do to my friends about them), and I'm allowed to just keep living my life and trying to be better as to not fuck up like that again.
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The renaming of T-Mobile NL to #Odido starting today really going well 😂
- Webcare for T-Mobile stopped zero seconds after the announcement of the new name.
- Competor KPN seems to be the only one who knew about this new name
- Lot's of people confused why their phone is connected to Odido, but see point 1: no webcare!
- E-mail/SMS about name change still not send to all customers.
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Ja duh, want de werkcultuur is Nederland is ziekelijk "lekker samen zijn van opstaan tot bedtijd", de lonen zijn niet meegegroeid met de huidige levenskosten, er is te weinig personeel voor noodzakelijk werk en teveel personeel voor onnoodzakelijk werk en wtf kost een huis tegenwoordig wel niet. Wordt tijd dat er eens wat Angelsaksische eigenschappen uit de werkcultuur worden verdreven.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2489307-aantal-jonge-werkenden-met-burn-outklachten-neemt-toe-vooral-vrouwen
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Honestly Voltorb is kinda relatable.
I too want to just explode when I get startled or stressed out 😭
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tusky as a springboard to talk abt When Things Are Actually Urgent
one of the big frustrations i had very early on in this mess, and i don't... directly think i have seen nik say this, but there *were* calls to uninstall (or at least, I'm Uninstalling loudly announced) by other folks and a sort of Tusky Is Bad Now air.
i was very frustrated to see some folks go "uhhh should i be still using tusky" when like
frankly, as an end user of an app, it never was going to really affect you that tusky was like, spending some of its money on things that didn't get finished
and that's not the fault of ppl who've been told to uninstall bc like. ppl listen simultaneously more and less the more urgent someone is being. act faster with less thought and/or panic. and often when ppl are urgent abt removing software, there are good reasons to heed their words!
but like, basically i think my point is that you do kinda need to know when it's *actually* urgent-as-in-Now to uninstall and utterly stop using a perfectly fine and functional app, in a similar way that it's important to know how to check if an Urgent Alert is really your bank, or a scammer.
(tangent scam avoidance advice: generally, when avoidable, try not to click links in texts or give personal information to someone who called *you* - call *them* back via an established support phone number.)
those reasons are
- security flaws or severe risks thereof
it's quick it's easy it's free. if someone tells u to uninstall a thing bc new information has come out about it, look at what they're saying and ask, yourself or them directly - "does this threaten my livelihood, devices, or data to keep installed"
if the answer is no, then... keep using it and see how things shake out after a few more days, maybe dig into the story if you want to understand it.
but like, frankly, NixOS could be revealed to be doing for realsies money laundering for all i care and it wouldn't yet be my problem if my computer won't be compromised in the near future
also wanna note: fashy or otherwise potentially threatening devs are 100% a valid threat to include in this question as a security risk. if the project is open source it's hypothetically harder to sneak in malicious code, but it's still worth considering as a potential real threat.
i'm sleep deprived and dunno how to end this post bye
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I'm really mad at several college professors in the CS department at my undergrad who told us all "self driving cars are coming" and trusting them as authorities I quashed my many qualms and wasted a lot of time in otherwise important conversations about urban planning insisting that we account for the impact of this 'inevitable' variable.
"They will be safer than human drivers." tapped into my confirmation bias ... I hate drivers, after all. Of course every one could be bested by a machine. 1/
It's really difficult to get excited about stuff like games, inventions, etc. anymore - knowing that the thing that initially looks cool will probably become some capitalist and/or white supremacist hellscape stuff down the line - and I hate it
grumpy, addressing some common defenses of the EFF's thing about KF 
"Corporations shouldn't get the right to decide who does and doesn't stay online"
They already do, and this has been true since pretty much the inception of the internet. What HE decides doesn't matter for this. HE doesn't make law nor legal precedent.
"But we should campaign against that, even if it's already the case! They should lose that right!"
Perhaps! But then don't you think there's better examples to take than fucking *Kiwifarms*? It's not like being refused service is a rare issue among marginalized folks, and curiously the EFF doesn't take *them* as an example. I wonder why.
"But precedent is important!"
What HE does sets no legal precedent. No courts were involved in this entire precedent.
"But I mean *social* precedent, not *legal* precedent!"
We already widely socially accept that services get cut off. Not just obviously malicious things like spam, but also oppressed groups like sex workers. This *shouldn't* be socially acceptable, but it is. If you're worried about 'precedent', we already have it, and KF doesn't change anything about it.
"But if we can't protect the worst people, then it will also harm the oppressed people!"
This is a somewhat absurd line of reasoning that ignores that fascists are always the *last* in line to get hit with consequences, not the first. Once the fascists start getting bothered, that means you're too late and everyone else has already been subject to this shit for a long time. That's how power dynamics work.
"But the EFF are lawyers, it's their job to talk about precedent!"
Then maybe they should shut their mouths about this, when precedent isn't the issue, and the problem isn't their area of expertise. Leave these issues to the people who actually understand how to deal with them.
"But Kiwifarms aren't fascists! They're just a forum, and they don't allow harassment to be organized on it!"
You've bought into fascist propaganda, sorry. Look deeper into their history and kill count. Non-zero kill counts don't just magically happen - and neither does cheering about it after the fact.
"But KF will just move somewhere else!"
This is irrelevant to whether HE wants to provide service to them; but aside from that, the point isn't to stamp out every last trace of KF, it's to make their continued existence difficult enough that it discourages further harassment.
"But the collateral damage! They denied service to an entire provider, not just to KF!"
When there's a nazi at a table and 10 others, there's 11 nazis at the table. Don't knowingly associate with fascists, and certainly do not provide services to them. Very simple. You should direct this complaint at the provider who decided to host KF.
"But this is the job of the cops!"
KF has existed for many years. Cops have not done anything against them, and they won't do so in the future. Quite a few of them are actively *members of* KF.
"Then you should reform the cops!"
A) This is not viable, as you will learn from basically anyone who has spent a non-negligible amount of time on trying to make that happen.
B) Even if it were, that would *at best* be a multi-year process. During which marginalized folks would continue to get harassed and killed. The answer to that is "no".
"But we shouldn't give up these really important principles, even when things get bad! They protect us all!"
You know that meme from Shrek? "Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice that I'm willing to make."
That's you right now. You're demanding that marginalized folks sacrifice themselves for your personal comfort blanket around internet freedom.
Don't you think that you should leave that decision to the marginalized folks affected by it, whether they wish to be your cannon fodder?
And of course that 'sacrifice' was never actually necessary to preserve internet freedoms, but that's something that you're unlikely to understand until you've accepted that it's not your choice to make and you'll have to look for other ways.
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The metro stations in Lille were from the start build for longer metros than the ones now used in exploitation. Half of the platforms were bricked off. For these new trains, the unused part of the stations were opened for the public. There is a nice animation how this was done. Even without understanding French, the animations should be clear to understand. There have been some interruptions in the service in recent years, because it was decided to upgrade the safety systems before the new trains enter service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyJT_ff3Yo
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My family: why do you know about how fursuits are sewn anyway?
Me: because I'm interested in infosec so I follow infosec experts on the Internet
My family: what?
Me: what?
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
